H. G. Wells - Libros y biografía

Science fiction innovator H. G. Wells held many progressive political and social views, and many of his novels and short stories served as vehicles through which he sought to disseminate his opinions....

H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops. He marries a woman he's not really...

Fans of Dickens' Great Expectations will love H. G. Wells' classic novel Kipps. This tale follows the life and rapid social ascension of a humble orphan and textile worker who discovers he is actually...

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues of the time. It's heroine goes from being a naive young girl into becoming a picture of the New Woman. The novel...

Qui ne connaît pas l'intrigue de ce roman ? La terre en l'an 802701 a les apparences d'un paradis. Les apparences seulement. Car derrière ces jardins magnifiques, ces bosquets somptueux, cet éternel été...

Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its...

What if an angel fell to earth—and nobody liked him? That's the fascinating premise at the heart of this engrossing fantasy tale from science fiction master H. G. Wells. Penned around the same time Wells...

H. G. Wells' prophetic The War in the Air foretold the use of airplanes in warfare and the coming of World War I. First serialized in 1907 and published in book form in 1908, the novel tells the story...

The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle, when practical and affordable bicycles led to profound social shifts in England. Suddenly people of modest...

Les martiens attaquent... Voici l'un des premiers classiques du «space opera» en science-fiction moderne. Vous connaissez tous ce grand roman, récemment à nouveau adapté au cinéma. Voici un petit extrait...

Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est recueilli sur une île des mers du sud par un personnage singulier: le docteur Moreau. Il découvre avec effroi que l'île est peuplée de créatures monstrueuses,...

En mystisk mand, Griffin, ankommer til den lokale kro, der ejes af Mr. og Mrs. Hall i den engelske landsby Iping, West Sussex, under en snestorm. Den fremmede bærer en langærmet, tyk frakke og handsker;...

Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The...

One of the most famous works in the science fiction canon. Southern England is invaded by Martians. Their three-legged fighting machines with destructive death rays ravage the land. But the Martians'...

La presente edizione è unica; La traduzione è completamente originale ed è stata eseguita per la società Ale. Mar. SAS; Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Il romanzo di fantascienza che ci ha dato...

- Esta edição é única; - A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS; - Todos os direitos reservados. O romance de ficção científica que realmente nos deu o termo: "máquina...

- Esta edição é única; - A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS; - Todos os direitos reservados. No final do século XIX, chegam relatos de todo o mundo sobre estranhos...

•    La presente edizione è unica; •    La traduzione è completamente originale ed è stata eseguita per la società Ale. Mar. SAS; •    Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Alla fine del 1800, da più parti...

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants...

- Diese Ausgabe ist einzigartig; - Die Übersetzung ist vollständig original und wurde für das Ale. Mar. SAS; - Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Die Geschichte von Bert Smallways, einem brillanten Mechaniker...

La presente edizione è unica; La traduzione è completamente originale ed è stata eseguita per la società Ale. Mar. SAS; Tutti i diritti sono riservati. La storia di Bert Smallways, un brillante meccanico...

- Esta edição é única; - A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS; - Todos os direitos reservados. O romance clássico de ficção científica de G. Wells, A Guerra dos Mundos,...

- Diese Ausgabe ist einzigartig; - Die Übersetzung ist vollständig original und wurde für das Ale. Mar. SAS; - Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Der klassische Science-Fiction-Roman von H. G. Wells, Der Krieg...

À la fin du XIXème siècle, dans la campagne anglaise, au nord de Londres, débarquent les Martiens. La curiosité attire d'abord la foule, puis c'est la panique quand les envahisseurs se révèlent être des...

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls...

As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to...

I SAW a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances,...

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work. It summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life and begins with its origins, goes...

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future...

Dealing with political issues of the time the novel was written and concentrating specifically on feminist issues, through the course this novel the heroine matures from an innocent and naïve girl to...